In tournament finals Nadal again holds the edge winning 11 of 16 career meetings in title matches. Their 17th title match tomorrow will put them ahead of the 16 Agassi-Sampras and Becker-Edberg played, but still behind Ivan Lendl and John McEnroe’s 20 finals.

Here’s the current head-to-head between Federer and Nadal of March 31 dating back to their very first meeting in 2004 Miami:

I have to pick Nadal in this one. He is undefeated on clay to this point just like he was last year, but overall his wins have been more convincing this year. No doubt Roger will show flashes of brilliance, but I don’t think he will be consistently great tomorrow. I do hope it goes the distance.

As to the fans Rsutherland, they were extremely well behaved in last year’s final if my memory serves me correct. I don’t recall a single whistling episode. This year the fans have been a bit boorish by Spanish standards particularly on the secondary and tertiary show courts(austerity measures?). No doubt the final will have a paucity of plebeians(to borrow one of your favorite words) so I expect a well mannered crowd for the final.

Congratulations to Rafa and Roger for their wins today and i cant be more excited for the final tomorrow .we waited a whole year to see these two fantastic players play against each other..let the best player win!!!!

my heart wants federer to win, but my head, being in reality says rafa will take it. i hope i’m wrong because my fantasy is federer wins every match he plays w/nadal. unfortunately nadal is the best on clay(unbeatable) and federer hasn’t played w/consistency of late and we all know nadal will be top spinning to federers backhand the whole match. i will hope that roger pulls it out. i will be disappointed he doesn’t, but i will not be overly surprised that nadal takes it. i hope this doesnt take to many points from roger as i want him to break sampras’ #1 ranking record. 4 weeks he needs to surpass him.

nadal will play like always and if feds serves near the 70% (first serves), keeps returning first serves like he did against gulbis and ferrer he has a shot winning this ( of course he has u may say..cuz he’s RF).nadal will be the human wall who runs down everyball and counterattacks when needed to; with federer having the upper hands on winners and unforced errors..he has to keep his UE % low like all week ..and convert his obligatory high breakpoint rate against nadal actually into breaks!!!
no matter how it ends tomorrow;expect both to meet each other again in RG..